Notepad++ is good, but there are tons of great options. Many swear by a particular editor, but I suspect they are all valid choices, and it's largely personal taste and usage patterns.

Every programmer I know uses a text editor. Even those that use a more full featured IDE use a text editor for working with code snippets, loose scripts, writing notes, and working with text data. Some advanced programmers swear by going IDE-free. I don't. IDEs are particularly important for navigating large code bases.

There are a few tasks where I prefer Eclipse, a lot where I prefer IntelliJ, but I can't think of any reason to use NetBeans any more.

Others:

- Linux or Mac OS. Windows has terrible shell options.- oh-my-zsh (https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh). A better shell than bash.- git for version control. Mercurial is fine too. I prefer git simply because it won the "war" for critical mass of this type of hash based open source version control system.- Gradle for builds. Gradle is a far more cleaner, concise, flexible version of Maven. IDE-specific scripts are terrible.- pandoc. You should write your docs and notes in some markup format or "markdown" or something similar. Pandoc is excellent at converting to pdf or web.- Scala. The only good reason to not use Scala is Android, where getting Scala to work is a headache. For desktop work, Scala is a must.- R + ggplot2. If you need to track any kind of data, or make any type of data plots, this is the best.

Mercurial is great when working alone because it is very personal. Git is incredible for group work. Subversion just makes you work hard to resolve conflicts... Not very fun.

I agree with the lists in this topic. But hey!! There is nothing wrong with using a text editor for quick edits to code. Some people are just to attached to the IDE, or maybe I just don't want a maid cleaning up after me all the time...

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